Overall mood may be best after high-risk teens spend time with a partner.
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Version History
Version 1 presents the data accurately and uses a color-blind friendly palette, however the labels and axes are a bit crowded and content-heavy. In order to make the title more clear and grab the attention of the viewer, I shortened and bolded the title in Version 2. The bold font felt a bit distracting from the other labels, however, so in Version 3 I reverted to the previous font style. I also used the color scheme to represent the emotions in a way that feels more intuitive. For example, yellow is generally viewed as a positive, cheery color so happy was represented by yellow, whereas sadness is represented by blue given that “feeling blue” indicates feeling low/sad. I did this by desaturating the Okabe Ito color scheme so the scheme would still be color-blind friendly.
Interpretation
The sizes of the bubbles plotted demonstrates the average severity level of the emotion across participants. The numeric labels on the bubbles also display the severity level. It seems that positive emotions (happy, supported) are greater when the adolescents have spent time with their partner in comparison to other people (i.e., classmates, friends).
That pattern might be especially evident for high-risk teens who experience clinical anxiety.
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Anxiety at Baseline
| Clinical Levels of Anxiety at Baseline | N |
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| Absent | 25 |
| Present | 37 |
Version History
Version 1 presents the data accurately and uses a color-blind friendly palette, however the 2 plots are fairly close together so it’s a little bit hard to process them separately and compare across the groups. Again, the title was a bit word heavy, so in Version 2, I shortened and bolded parts of the title to clearly highlight that two populations are being compared. This version also used the same color scheme as the previous set of plots.
Interpretation
Among high-risk adolescents with clinical levels of anxiety, their mood after spending time with their partner seems to be generally better than those without clinical levels of anxiety. This would be interesting to look into further, especially because the severity of anxiety seems particularly low after anxious adolescents spend time with their partners. There may be a protective factor or safety behavior worth looking into. Again, the numeric labels on the bubbles also display the severity level. It seems that positive emotions (happy, supported) are greater when the adolescents have spent time with their partner in comparison to other people (i.e., classmates, friends).
Levels of sadness fluctuate over time among teens with and without depression
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N at each Timepoint by Depression Status
| Timepoint | Depression at Baseline | No Depression at Baseline |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | NA |
| 2 | 4 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 13 | 8 |
| 5 | 10 | 4 |
| 6 | 12 | 3 |
| 7 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | 4 | 3 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 |
| 11 | 10 | 7 |
| 12 | 9 | 6 |
| 13 | 13 | 6 |
| 14 | NA | 2 |
| 15 | 3 | 2 |
| 16 | 3 | 3 |
| 17 | 3 | 2 |
| 18 | 5 | 7 |
| 19 | 11 | 4 |
| 20 | 12 | 5 |
| 21 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | 2 | 2 |
| 23 | 3 | 1 |
| 24 | NA | 1 |
| 25 | 11 | 3 |
| 26 | 10 | 5 |
| 27 | 13 | 6 |
| 28 | NA | 2 |
| 29 | 2 | NA |
| 30 | 3 | NA |
| 31 | 3 | 1 |
| 32 | 6 | 2 |
| 33 | 10 | 5 |
| 34 | 8 | 7 |
| 35 | 2 | 1 |
| 36 | 3 | NA |
| 37 | 2 | 1 |
| 38 | 4 | 2 |
| 39 | 9 | 6 |
| 40 | 4 | 2 |
| 41 | 10 | 5 |
| 42 | 2 | NA |
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Version 1 and Version 2 presents the data with a data set that was not fully cleaned. Particularly, the timepoints had not been correctly labeled. This has been fixed and the correct dataset was used in Version 3. The table (relevant to Version 3) displaying the number of data points for each timepoint between groups. It demonstrates that there are a few timepoints without data. This explains the gaps in the line plot. The color schemes are again color-blind friendly, using the Okabe Ito package.
Interpretation
These plots are not particularly enlightening in understanding predictive factors or sadness, however, we do see that there is variability in severity of sadness over time. There are also instances where adolescents who were not depressed at baseline, report levels of sadness that surpass the levels of adolescents who were depressed at baseline.